Kate Doyle
BOM declares La Nina alert, with 70 per cent chance of forming in 2020
The odds of a La Nina in the coming months have improved to a 70 per cent chance – roughly three times...
And the outlook for winter is … wet
There is a more than 70 per cent chance of above average rainfall for much of inland Australia this winter, according to...
Another heatwave on the way: Here’s when it will hit your place
Brace yourselves Australia: there is yet another heatwave on the way. If you were beginning to think this summer was over, think...
Rain relief for Australia’s firegrounds
Finally, there’s a forecast to get excited about. Widespread rainfall is expected for the east coast of the country, including the firegrounds,...
BoM: 2019 was the hottest and driest year we’ve ever endured
The data is in and 2019 has topped the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BOM) charts for average and maximum temperatures as well as...
Weather bureau declares spring 2019 the driest on record
Spring 2019 was officially the driest of the Bureau of Meteorology’s 120 years of rainfall records. It comes on top of previous...
Australia swelters through the warmest March on record
BOM has just released its monthly weather review and it was officially Australia’s hottest March on record. Blair Trewin, senior climatologist at...
El Nino alert declared by Bureau of Meteorology, with 70 per cent chance of hot and dry conditions
The Bureau of Meteorology has just upped the chance of an El Nino this year, meaning there is now three times the normal...
Experts give verdict on severity of current drought
This autumn has been the fourth-warmest on record in Australia, with below-average rainfall for most of the country, according to the Bureau of...
After a downpour, this is where all the water goes
Slowly and steadily a great flood is trickling its way across the outback. Birdsville is being surrounded and the Channel Country is...